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Language Nazis are also confusing the issue, in Britain the term Asian has come to suggest people of Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi, where in the US it usually implies East Asians. In Britain every time a newspaper publishes an article headlined "Asian Rape Gang strikes again" all the Chinese, Malays and Japanese must grit their teeth. The perfectly good word "Oriental" is now a no-no and relegated to 19thC novels--because SOMEONE decided it was "not nice".Language Nazis are also confusing the issue, in Britain the term Asian has come to suggest people of Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi, where in the US it usually implies East Asians. In Britain every time a newspaper publishes an article headlined "Asian Rape Gang strikes again" all the Chinese, Malays and Japanese must grit their teeth. The perfectly good word "Oriental" is now a no-no and relegated to 19thC novels--because SOMEONE decided it was "not nice". GET A LIFE! -[https://historum.com/threads/why-were-australian-aborigines-so-primitive.99525/page-3 Ancientgeezer]GET A LIFE! -[https://historum.com/threads/why-were-australian-aborigines-so-primitive.99525/page-3 Ancientgeezer]